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Loyalty to the system sometimes seems to be regarded as more important than expertise, ability and delivery.It is important that the Public Audit Committee highlights examples of best practice and encourages the very best in all aspects of public service.
As far back as 2004, Dr McLellan remarked:"The impact of the best strategies in the best prisons carried out by the best staff is hopelessly weakened by overcrowding."
Such pre-legislative scrutiny proved very valuable, as it allowed the committee to feed its thinking on the best approach to flood risk management into the Government's work at a very early stage.